May 28, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
An Overview of the President’s FY 2022 Budget
Moments ago, President Joe Biden unveiled his Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget proposal, outlining his tax and spending proposals and their effects on...
Blog | May 2021
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
May 26, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
What We Hope to See in the President's FY 2022 Budget
The White House is slated to release President Biden’s first full budget proposal this Friday. Although the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 budget request will...
May 25, 2021 | Health Care
Reducing Private Health Care Costs
Erica Socker and Mark Miller of Arnold Ventures last week penned a blog post in Health Affairs on the need to contain the costs...
May 25, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
CBO Releases Budget Projections Under Three Scenarios
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a letter outlining how enacted legislation and certain amounts of additional...
May 21, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
What Would it Take to Stabilize the Debt?
Federal debt held by the public is now larger than annual economic output and is on track to reach 113 percent of Gross Domestic...
May 21, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
RSC Releases Its FY 2022 Budget Proposal
The Republican Study Committee (RSC), a group of over 150 House Republicans, released its annual budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 on...
May 18, 2021 | Other Spending
State & Local Aid is On Its Way, But Is It Needed?
Last week, the Department of Treasury issued guidelines for the allocations of $350 billion of direct state and local...
May 14, 2021 | Other Spending
Spending in the American Jobs Plan vs. the 2018 Senate Infrastructure Plan
Last month, President Joe Biden unveiled the second part of his "Build Back Better" agenda – the American Jobs Plan – focused on upgrading...
May 14, 2021 | Budgets & Projections
Eugene Steuerle: How Existing Budgetary Commitments Could Affect President Biden’s Domestic Policy Goals
Dr. Eugene (Gene) Steuerle is an Institute fellow and the Richard B. Fisher chair at the Urban Institute, as well as a member of the Committee for a...
CRFB Launches Suite of Budget Games
Today the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget launched Budgeting for the Future, a suite of interactive games related to the federal budget...